Literary usage of Gainless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)"The state or quality of being gainless; unprofitableness; want of advantage.
The parallel holds in the ..."

2.Publications by English Dialect Society (1902)"Yet : O Gracious God ! not gainless is the loss ! A glorious sunbeam gilds thy
sternest frown. "For the curtain has fallen long ago on those mournful scenes ..."

3.A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1901)"If here and there one existed he drudged along in his gainless calling, solitary
and alone. He did not repose in the bowers of academic learning, ..."